Health Local Is Back in Lombard!  

Health Local is a magazine-style monthly cable show that features segments on Healthy Hints, Exercises, Demonstrations of Easy to Follow Recipes, and advice from Health Professionals. After a brief “vacation,” the show is once again being shown on Lombard’s Cable Station

(times listed below.)

The Goals of Health Local are to:
• Make physical activity an integral and routine part of life,
• Create food and beverage environments that ensure that healthy food and beverage      options are the routine, easy choice, and
• Transform messages about physical activity and nutrition.

The show is comprised of short 5 – 7 minutes segments that feature:

• Chef’s Corner (cooking segments sometimes featuring students),
• The Doctor is In, (quick health tips by local or well known physicals and/nutritionists)
• Work Out Room, (segments from Health Tracks, Glenbard High Schools, etc.)
• Life Long Lessons (healthy hints for seniors)
• Healthy Hints, (hints shared by attendees at health fairs, NUHS students, COD Nursing Students, and other healthy activities), and
• Generation H (H stands for Healthy – in this segment, students share there favorite exercise of a healthy hints).

The DuPage County Health Department also contributes many segments for the show.

Health Local is aired 4 times a month on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM on Comcast Channel 19 airing in the towns of:

• Addison
• Aurora
•  Bensenville
• Bloomingdale
• Carol Stream
• Darian
• Downers Grove
• Elmhurst
• Glendale Heights
• Glen Ellyn
• Itasca
• Lisle
• Lombard,
• Medina
• Naperville
• Oakbrook Terrace
• Oakbrook
• Roselle
• Warrenville,
• Wayne
• Westmont
• Wheaton
• Winfield
• Wood Dale and
• Unincorporated Villa Park

It also airs on the Lombard Channel 6 & ATT&T U-verse Channel 99 (Lombard) on Sundays at 12 Noon, Wednesday at Noon and 11 PM, Fridays at 10 AM, and Saturdays at 5 PM.

Single segments are also uploaded to the Healthy Lombard YouTube Channel.  (www.youtube.com/healthylombard). That way, individuals who do not have cable can still view them.

Would you like to be on the show? Contact our producer at:  [email protected]